The Daggers’ awful run of form in recent weeks has been highlighted at length by the press and the Victoria Road faithful on both the terraces and the unofficial messageboard. We’ve tried to analyse the team’s fortunes in small batches as the season has progressed, but it is time for us to pick over the bones of the campaign so far as the side desperately attempt to get back to winning ways.

Only five matches have taken place since mid-December due to the irritatingly cold weather conditions, but this stop-start period has pretty much been a disaster for the Daggers. A single win and four defeats has seen us plummet from 4th place and 2 points off the automatic places, to 9th place and 5 points off the pace. Perhaps more telling is the games in hand some of the other sides around us also hold. Games at Rotherham, Torquay and Lincoln have all fallen foul of the weather whilst Northampton, Cheltenham, Shrewsbury and Notts County all managed to take the 3 points, with only a home match against Crewe bringing some winter cheer.

There’s no doubt many Daggers fans would have been having a little moan trundling back down the M1 yesterday as Northampton turned the league table on its head to chalk up an unexpected victory at Sixfields.
The game itself was bereft of quality and goalmouth action for large periods, and neither set of supporters would have [...]

Six more matches have passed since our last round-up, and it has been a pretty mixed bag for the Daggers. When we signed off last time just two points separated us from top spot but, despite a brief flirtation with pole position, nosebleed ensued and things went downhill with two points from four games. We’ve seen a lot of disruption to the team through various injuries and loan players, but a much-needed victory last weekend over Bury has put us back on the trail.

A third of the season has now passed so it seems like a good time to look back on the recent batch of games. OK, the eagle-eyed amonst you will notice that 15 isn’t quite a third of 46, but it’s close enough for my poor little brain. Five league matches have taken place since our last examination, with nine more points secured. Our form during this period hasn’t quite been as good as previously, but this is a decent return considering the problems Still has had to face.

The departure of Scott Griffiths has long been mooted ever since he burst onto the scene as a teenager in 2004. A young lad plucked from the obscurity of Aveley, he has become probably the finest left-back in League Two under the watchful eye of John Still and his staff. Finally the speculation can end with news of his loan and impending transfer to, predictably, Peterborough.

October is here and the Christmas lights are already being put up across the land, but more importantly we’re a quarter of the way through the league season. It seems appropriate now to draw breath and take a look at how the new signings have performed since their arrival at Victoria Road this summer.